Friday, August 21, 2009

How To Enable ClearType on the Welcome Screen

As laptop users and other lcd owners are quickly realizing, Microsoft's ClearType technology in Windows XP really makes a big difference for readability. But the this feature is enabled on a per-user basis in Windows XP, so you can't see the effect on the Welcome screen; it only appears after you logon.

But you can fix that. Fire up the Registry Editor and look for the following keys:
(default user) hkey_users \ .Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \
FontSmoothing (String Value)
hkey_users \ .Default \ Control Panel \ Desktop \
FontSmoothingType (Hexadecimal dword value)



Make sure both of these values are set to 2 and you'll have ClearType enabled on the Welcome screen and on each new user by default.

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